Maria is a Costume designer for film and television based in Melbourne, Australia. Maria has a masters in visual anthropology and has completed text/image based research in contexts of protracted displacement for internally displaced refugees in Georgia – with a special interest in – post-soviet politics, new borders, materiality, atmospheres, protracted displacement, aesthetics, intersubjectivity, quasi-states, existential anthropology.

Awards

MS FISHER’S MODERN
MURDER MYSTERIES (S1)↗
dir. Fiona Banks, Kevin Carlin, Lynn Hegarty
pc. Everycloud
cd. Maria Pattison
Winner. Australian Production
Design Guild Awards [APDG]
Best Costume Design in a Television
Series (2019)

UPGRADE↗
dir. Leigh Whannell
pc. Goalpost, Blumhouse
cd. Maria Pattison
Nominated. Australian Production
Design Guild Awards [APDG]
Best Costume Design in a Feature Film (2018)

BERLIN SYNDROME↗
dir. Cate Shortland
pc. Aquarius Films
cd. Maria Pattison
Nominated. Australian Academy of Cinema
and Television Arts Awards [AACTA]
Best Costume Design in a  Feature Film (2017)

PARTISAN↗
dir. Ariel Kleiman
pc. Warp Films
cd. Maria Pattison
Nominated. Australian Academy of Cinema
and Television Arts Awards [AACTA]
Best Costume Design in a  Feature Film (2015)

Press

AQUARIUS FILMS, VIMEO (2016)↗
Berlin Syndrome: Behind the Scenes

INDIEWIRE (2019)↗
Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries’:
How the Youthquake Influenced
Costumer Maria Pattison

INDIEWIRE (2019)↗
Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries’:
Costumer Maria Pattison Gives the Backstory
on the Show’s Vintage Looks

BROADSHEET (2016)↗
Time Management 101 with Australia’s
Top Creatives

Works

Permanantly-Temporary
Displacement in Georgia
Tskaltubo and Tserovani 2019